They could not safely attempt to reach William's quarters; for the road thither lay through a country occupied by the royal forces.

It was therefore determined that Anne should take refuge with the northern insurgents.

Compton wholly laid aside, for the time, his sacerdotal character.

Danger and conflict had rekindled in him all the military ardour which he had felt twenty-eight years before, when he rode in the Life Guards.

He preceded the Princess's carriage in a buff coat and jackboots, with a sword at his side and pistols in his holsters.